It’s hard to take the slogan “never forget” seriously when, as a country, we never learned the true lessons of 9/11 in the first place.
I know it probably makes you angry to read this. After all, it’s a solemn occasion, and as an American, I have a duty to cast aside everything, wrap myself in an American flag and blindly remember the terrible day our nation experienced 10 years ago.
But it makes me angry we are so willfully ignorant of the reasons behind an event that not only claimed 3,000 innocent victims, but due to our “War on Terror” has cost the lives of over 6,000 of our service people, as well as caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Wait, I need to be more politically correct… not civilian deaths, “collateral damage.”
Great cartoon Rob. If I was on the pulitzer committee, you’d win.
++1. If I was in charge of the Louvre Museum, I would hang it next to the Mona Lisa.
Louvre museum reference from greatest songwriter ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9b4rIUb5OU
Rob,
Thumbs up !
No flag waving. No waste of solemn expression. Our country IS in distress.
Please read the thought provoking post “How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11 and the Religious Zealots Who Perpetrated It” from Robert Scheer at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/how-little-we-know-about_b_953380.html
9/11 joke from New York magazine:
Knock knock
Who’s there?
9/11
9/11 who?
I thought you said you’d never forget!
Video of WTC smoke plume taken from the International Space Station. I hadn’t seen this one before.
We should all be thankful today that we have a President who followed the intelligence advice of his people unlike Bush and Cheney who when told a month before this attack that OBL was going to attack America ignored it and went on vacation. Obama listened to his intelligence folks acted on it pursued OBL and killed the bastard.